Beyond which, we may note, even Matrix learning didn't translate outside of the matrix. You "know" kung fu? Great, what does it mean to know kung fu? Because actually performing kung fu requires bodily adaptations that take years to accumulate. Knowledge on its own doesn't do a whole lot, except inside the matrix where you're not bound by the physical limitations of your body's capabilities. In the real non-simulated world, the brain can only do so much on its own. Christopher Reeve knew how to walk. Fat lot of good it did him.
I'd love to have the ability to learning like that
- Ideology
- Desires to do bad things
- Knowledge of committing a crime you haven't.
Does anyone here think we really have the wisdom to handle such technology when we can't even handle money properly (50% goes to the 1%, etc.)?
I'm afraid technophiles will jump on this because they currently live in a priveleged bubble that allows them to not sense on a visceral level the atrocities of the world.
Now what this could make easier is training killers. That's sufficiently evil for me.
"They have shown a method to induce learning through the direct manipulation of brain activity patterns. "
There was nothing direct about it, it was a feedback loop mediated by fMRI.
Quite different from all the SF skill and knowledge transfer ideas.